Samarth Brahmbhatt - Practical OpenCV

Practical OpenCV

Samarth Brahmbhatt

Practical OpenCV

Copyright 2013 by Samarth Brahmbhatt

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To my family, who convinced me into this adventure.

And to hope, and the power of dreams.

Contents at a Glance

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About the Author

Originally from the quiet city of Gandhinagar in India, Samarth Brahmbhatt is at present a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA. He loves making and programming all kinds of robots, although he has a soft spot for ones that can see well. Samarth hopes to do doctoral research on developing vision algorithms for robots by drawing inspiration from how humans perceive their surroundings. When he is not learning new things about computer vision, Samarth likes to read Tolkien and Le Carr, travel to new places, and cook delicious Indian food.

About the Technical Reviewer

Steven Hickson is an avid technical blogger and current graduate student at Georgia Institute of Technology. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Computer Engineering from Clemson University before moving on to the Department of Defense. After consulting and working at the DoD, Steven decided to pursue his PhD with a focus in computer vision, robotics, and embedded systems. His open-source libraries are used the world over and they have been featured in places such as Linux User and Developer Magazine, raspberrypi.org , Hackaday, and Lifehacker. In his free time, Steven likes to rock climb, program random bits of code, and play Magic: The Gathering.